[ros-users] Vicon Motion Capture Node

[Peter Brook]

Hey Patrick,

We have an upcoming project involving the Vicon system and ROS, so if it is
easy to put the code up on github we'd appreciate seeing how another lab
integrated the two.

Peter

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Patrick Bouffard <bouffard at eecs.berkeley.edu
> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I hacked together something for use in our lab. This is used for
> tracking a rigid body (a quadrotor helicopter). It's a bit rough
> around the edges though I had been giving some thought to making it a
> bit more polished and generic. To the extent that your application is
> similar to mine, it might be of use to you.
>
> However, the Datastream SDK is pretty straightforward--it was pretty
> easy to use code from the demo they include with the SDK--depending on
> what you want to do that might make the most sense for you to do
> something similar.
>
> If on the other hand you just want to know the 6-dof pose of a rigid
> body (i.e. a single 'segment' in the Vicon object hierarchy) then the
> node I've written could help.
>
> Let me know if you'd like to take a look at it and I'll break it out
> of the larger codebase and put it on github or something.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pat
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Chris Mansley <cmansley at cs.rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
> > All,
> >  Does anyone have a pointer to a Vicon to ROS stack/node? I know there a
> several places that use ROS with the Vicon system, but I can't find any
> software.
> > -chris
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